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Pakistan: Rescue 1122 Service Sought for Besham

Shangla: The residents of Besham tehsil on Wednesday (June 8) demanded fire brigade and Rescue 1122 service in their area to provide emergency care to the people needing immediate medical treatment. Besham located along the Karakorum Highway is a major business centre in Shangla district but has no fire brigade facility.

Pakistan: Al Khidmat Extends Ambulance Service

Peshawar: Al-Khidmat Foundation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chapter extended the Al-Khidmat ambulance service to far-flung areas of the province. The service of the ambulance will be available to the remote district of Malakand division including district Bunner, Upper and Lower Deer.\r\nThe number of ambulances of the Al-Khidmat Foundation in KP reached to 68.The provision of news ambulances service programme was held at Al-Khidmat Agosh Home Peshawar city, Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan president Mian Abdul-Shakoor was the chief guest at the ceremony.

Last summer, temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius led to more than a thousand heat-related deaths in Karachi. This year, as it prepares for the peak of summer heat, the city has opened 179 heatstroke centres to try to hold down the death toll.\r\nOfficials have also trained scores of new ambulance drivers and are working with utility companies to try to keep electricity and water flowing as the city’s 24 million people battle summer heat during the month-long Islamic fast of Ramadan, when drinking water and eating is forbidden during daylight hours.

Lahore: The Punjab government has allocated an amount of Rs 2,150 million for the sector of Emergency Service in the budget 2016-17.\r\nAccording to the budget document, an amount of Rs 1,884 million will be spent on nine ongoing schemes of the sector and Rs 266 million has been allocated for eight new schemes, including strengthening of Emergency Service Academy in the city.

Lahore: Rescue 1122 Director General Arshad Zia said on Saturday (June 18) that a policy framework had been finalised for induction of cadets into newly-formed Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) teams at divisional headquarters level.\r\nHe said the provincial government had decided to set up these teams for all nine divisional headquarters of the province. He said training was already under way for Rawalpindi and Lahore teams. He said the process of setting up all nine teams would be completed by the end of 2018.